celebratory meal following the fulfillment of a mitzvah (commandment), such as a bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, a wedding, a brit milah (ritual circumcision)...

works with Emet VeShalom on a part-time basis.[citation needed] Congregation Emet VeShalom holds services on Friday evenings, bar/bat mitzvah Shabbat morning...

on to become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and bar/bat(b'nei) mitzvah celebrations. The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun. It was composed...

names. In the U.S., elementary-school students enroll in a cheder, post-bar mitzvah-age students learn in a mesivta, and undergraduate-level students learn...

American Bat Mitvah". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. 1922-03-18. Retrieved 2013-04-13. Golinkin, David (2021). "The Transformation of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony...

prayers. An adult in this context means over the age of 12 or 13 (bat or bar mitzvah). Judaism had originally counted only men in the minyan for formal...

and other non-Orthodox streams for girls to receive a tallit at their bat mitzvah, although some do not subsequently wear it on a regular basis. Other...

HaGedolah (c. 515–332 BCE). Accordingly, in Judaism, to recite the Amidah is a mitzvah de-rabbanan, i. e., a commandment of rabbinic origin. Although the name...

existence of the Temple and priesthood. Thus, from 70 to 130 CE, when the Bar Kochba revolt further decimated the Jewish community, the Oral Law experienced...

president of the American Atheists from 2010 to 2018, swore after his bar mitzvah that he would never again lie about not being an atheist. American Jewish...